Bug#802241: please store the hash of the installed .deb and allow to query it

[Holger Levsen]

----- Forwarded message from Drew Parsons <dparsons at debian.org> -----

Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 16:43:48 +0800
From: Drew Parsons <dparsons at debian.org>
To: 802241 at bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#802241: please store the hash of the installed .deb and allow to query it
Reply-To: dparsons at debian.org, 802241 at bugs.debian.org
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I got caught out by this apt bug when handling sasview. I had installed
a local build of sasview with my patch for 4.2.0~git20180309-3. Stuart
Prescott added another patch and uploaded.

I assumed apt had picked up on the update and installed the final,
official version.  But it hadn't, even though the contents and
changelog had changed.  I was left wondering why the "new" version was
misbehaving (still showing the bug that Stuart had patched).

Drew


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-- 
cheers,
	Holger
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